Compex Technologies WPE54 - Manual (Page 79)

Chapter 5 Further Configuration
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Enabling STP Setup
Click on STP Setup from the CONFIGURATION menu
Select Enable from the STP State
radio button.
STP State:
Activate Spanning Tree Protocol
(STP) function makes your network
more resilient to link failure and also
provides a protection from loop.
Priority:
Specify the configurable value that is appended as the most significant portion of a AP.
This value specifies which access point acts as the central reference point, or Root AP, for
the STP system — the lower the priority value, the more likely the access point is to become
the Root AP. If the priority values are all the same, then the system will search for the
smallest MAC address of the access point and set it as the Root AP.
Hello Time:
Specify the time in seconds that elapses between the configuration messages (also known as
Hello BPDUs) generated by an AP that assumes itself to be the Root AP.
Forwarding Delay:
Specify the time in seconds that an AP spends in the listening and learning states, that is,
listening for configuration messages.
Max Aging Time:
Specify the maximum age in seconds at which the stored configuration message information
is judged to be too old and is discarded.
If an AP does not receive a configuration message after the Max Aging Time, the system
will assume that the link between itself and the Root AP has gone down and will then
reconfigures the network to cater for the change.
Click on the
Apply button.